Improvement in machines for the manufacture of carpet-linings



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H. B. MEEOH. Machineforthe Manufacture of Carpet-Lining.

No. 212,723. Patented Feb. 25,1879.

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Machine for the Manufacture of Oarpet-Lin ing.

No. 212,723 Pat ented Feb. 25,1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRISON B. MEECH, OF OHATHAM VILLAGE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CA RPET-LININGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,723., dated February 25, 1879; application filed.

January 11, 1879.

which will enable others skilled in the art to of means, substantially such as hereinafter de- 1 scribed, whereby the sheet designed to impart elasticity is produced continuously and united to a continuous flatsheet or sheets.

Figure lis a side elevation of this improved machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of amodiiication thereof. Fig. 3 is are'ar elevation of Fig, 2. Fig. 4 is a section through one of the hollow journals of one of the drying-cylinders, showing the mannerin which steam is admitted to the cylinders for hea tingthe same. Fig. Sis asection of one form of carpet-1min g made by this machine, I

A in the drawings represents the supporting-standards or frame of the central or main portion of the machine. 13 B are two fiutingrollers, which have their hearings in movable v boxes insaid frame. These rollers are corrugated orfluted, "being-pro 'ided withlongitudinal ribs and grooves, and arranged to mesh into each other, as shown. Suflieientspaceisleltbetween the interlocking surfaces of the respective rollers to allow of a free movement of the The upper-rollen may be adjustable by means of the screws (1, 1

paper passed between them.

and steam may be tulnritted to the rollers through their journnlsnfterthc mannershown in Fi 4 or by unv well-known means. At

tached to one side of the frame, between the tinting-rollers, is a paste-trough, (J, for containing paste, provided with a paste-roller, 0'.

Above the tinting-rollers, having its bearin gs in the same frame, is the drying-cylinder 1), into which steam is admitted through the shafts of the journals.

In front of the part just described is an upright stand or frame, E, supporting the reels F, which contain paper as it comes from the paper-making machine. On the opposite side of the frame supporting the tinting-rollers is an upright frame, G, supporting a pair of press ure-rollers, H, the journals of which, or of one of which, rest in movable boxes in slots of the frame. These rollers may have steam or hot air admitted to heat them, the same as the flutingrollers and drying cylinders. The pressure of these rollers may be regulated by set-screws 11. Beyond the pressure or plaiting rollers-is a pair of upright standards, I, supporting reels J, upon which the product of the machine is wound. v

The shafts of the pressure-rollers H H are provided at one end with fixed or expansive gearing, and may be driven by a belt extending from a pulley on the shaft of one of them to a pulley on a shaft of one of the tinting-rollers or drying-cylinders, or to a pulley on a countershaft above.

The feeding-reels may be operated by the draft of 4 the paper sheets, or may be provided with actuatingmechanism. The paste-rollers may be operated by the friction of the paper sheet or of the flirting-rollers, or by independent actuating mechanism. The winding-reels will be operated in the usual manner of oper-. ating winding-reels, andmay have their speed graduated to suit the increasingdiameter of the roll.

The material for forming the carpet-lining generally consists of a thick heavy brown pa per. The sheet in is unwound from oneofthc reel-s F and passed between the flirting-rollers, which form it into flutes. The heat of the rollers tends to-set it in the shape thus formed. As it emerges from between the flirting-rollers it is carried upon the teeth of the upper roller, B, and the outer ribs of the flutes come in contact with the paste-roller O, which imparts paste thereto.

A sheet, 01, passes under the flirting-rollers from another of the reels F, and under the small roller, K, up on the opposite side of the machine, and over the top of thefluting-roller B, where it meets thefluted sheet m and rests upon the pasted ribs of the flutes thereof. The whole is then carried over the-drying-cylinder D, where thepaste'is dried and the two sheets'madeto adhere.

The united sheets are passed down and between the pressure-rollers H, by means of which the flutes are partially compressed into plaits, as represented in Fig. 5, and the product thus formed is wound upon reels J. As thus formed the plaited sheetimparts elasticity, while the flatshect gives strength and stability, preserving the plaits in their proper rela-.

tions. The dust and dirt from the carpet will fall between the folds or plaits. v

When it is desired to form an elastic lining having aflat covering-on both sides, a supplementary drying-cylinder, D, Fig. 2, is .arranged above the cylinder D, and a supplementary paste-box, L, provided with a pasteroller or paste-rollers, is placed in a position where the ribs of the opposite side of the fluted sheet will come in contact with the paste-roller.

'A third sheet, 0, from one'of the feedingreels, is carried up and applied to the opposite I Steam may be admitted was flirting-rollers through the pipes d d, and to the drying-cylinders through the pipesffj, circulating back through pipes h or independent supply and return pipes may be used for each roll and each cylinder. These pipes project through stufflug-boxes 0' into the ends of the hollou journal's p of the rollers and cylinders.

P 1 are-the gears for operating the drying} cylinders. R R are the gears for operating the fluting-rollers. The driving-pulley S, with its accompanying loose pulley S, may be placed on the shaft of one of the fiuting-rollers or drying-cylinders, and motion communicated to the other rolls and cylinders through snitably-adiusted gears or otherwise.

No claim is here made to the carpet-lining itself, that being described and claimed in a separate application filed January 22, 18?).

What is claimed asthe invention is- 1. In machine for making carpet-linin g from two or more sheets of fabric, the combination, of a pair of fluting-rollers for fluting one of the sheets, a pair of pressure rollers for com pressing or partially compressing the flutes to plaits or folds, mechanism for actuating the same, means for applying paste or other ad hesive substance to unite the folded and flat sheets, and mechanism for supplyiu g said flat sheet, substantially as described.

2. The combination of feeding-reels, tlut-ingrollers, pressure-rollers, and winding reel with suitable actuating mechanism, substantially as described.

I 3. The combination of fluting-rollers, a device or devices for applying paste to the ribs of the fluted sheet, a drying-cylinder, and suitable actuating mechanism, substantially as described.

4..The combination of flirting-rollers, a device or devices for applying paste to the ribs of the fluted sheet, a drying-cylinder, press ure-1'ollers,-'and suitable actuating mechanism,- substantially as described.

5, The combination of tinting-rollers, a device or devices for applying paste to the. ribs of one side of the fluted sheet, a drying-cylinder, a device or devices for applying paste vto the ribs of the opposite side of the fluted sheet, a supplementary drying-cylinder, and suitable actuating mechanism, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRISON B. MEEGH. Witnesses:

FORMAN WHITNEY, I. A. THOMPSON. 

